SAUSALITO - Forget questions about previous jobs, technical experience or qualifications. You have to estimate how many windows are in New York.

Or what song best describes your work ethic.

Then there's the one about the sombrero-wearing penguin.

Glassdoor, a Sausalito jobs and career website, last week listed what it called its top 25 oddball interview questions for 2013. It said the list was compiled from tens of thousands of interview questions submitted by job candidates in 2012.

The company said the list is offered to help job seekers "prepare for challenging or unexpected questions that may arise during an interview."

The questions were asked at a variety of companies, from Google to Marriott, from JetBlue to Trader Joe's.

Get your thinking caps on:

1. "If you were to get rid of one state in the U.S., which would it be and why?"

2. "How many cows are in Canada?"

3. "How many quarters would you need to reach the height of the Empire State building?"

4. "A penguin walks through that door right now wearing a sombrero. What does he say, and why is he here?"

5. "What song best describes your work ethic?"

6. "(Amazon CEO) Jeff Bezos walks into your office and says you can have a million dollars to launch your best entrepreneurial idea. What is it?"

7. "What do you think about when you are alone in your car?"

8. "How would you rate your memory?"

9. "Name three previous Nobel Prize winners."

10. "Can you say, 'Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper' and cross-sell a washing machine at the same time?"

11. "If we came to your house for dinner, what would you prepare for us?"

12. "How would people communicate in a perfect world?"

13. "How do you make a tuna sandwich?"

14. "My wife and I are going on vacation. Where would you recommend?"

15. "You are a head chef at a restaurant, and your team has been selected to be on 'Iron Chef.' How do you prepare your team for the competition, and how do you leverage the competition for your restaurant?"

16. "Estimate how many windows are in New York."

17. "What's your favorite song? Perform it for us now."

18. "Calculate the angle of two clock pointers when the time is 11:50."

19. "Have you ever stolen a pen from work?"

20. "Pick two celebrities to be your parents."

21. "What kitchen utensil would you be?"

22. "If you had turned your cellphone to silent, and it rang really loudly despite it being on silent, what would you tell me?"

23. "On a scale from one to 10, rate me as an interviewer."

24. "If you could be anyone else, who would you be?"

25. "How would you direct someone else on how to cook an omelet?"

A list of interview questions that are more commonly asked can be found at the company's website at Glassdoor.com.